The Messenger Girl

Paris, 1942. The swastika hangs over the city of lights, and seventeen-year-old Elise Dufour has lost everything, her father taken by the Gestapo, her mother long gone, and only her younger brother left to protect.When the Resistance recruits her as a courier, Elise learns to slip past checkpoints with coded messages hidden in breadbaskets and hems. But one mission changes everything: in a forgotten barn outside Paris, she finds a wounded RAF pilot hiding from the Germans. Against all odds, Elise and Thomas carve out a fragile world of whispered secrets and stolen kisses, even as the war closes in.As reprisals grow bloodier and betrayals threaten to unravel the Resistance, Elise faces a devastating choice: cling to love, or risk everything for freedom.From the terror of occupied Paris to the triumph of liberation, Elise's story is one of unyielding courage, heartbreaking loss, and a promise that out of the ashes, something enduring can be built.Decades later, the world will know her name, though not for the reasons they expect.

Pages: 84, Paperback, Andy d'Souza